KDE 4.2 Toolbars

[Nuno Pinheiro]

A Thursday 13 November 2008 05:05:56, Sebastian Kügler escreveu:
> On Thursday 13 November 2008 00:26:18 Matthias Fuchs wrote:
> > Sebastian Kügler schrieb:
> > > In 4.0, we switched on text under icons, and were afraid first that not
> > > too long labels might become a problem. At least for the English
> > > version, that's not a problem (anymore). Most apps actually seem to
> > > have some space left in the toolbars.
> >
> > I guess you have some space left, because you are running the apps in
> > fullscreen as maybe most people do.
>
> Actually I'm not.
>
> > I think it is important that the toolbar is not much wider than the
> > menu-bar. That way you can work very well with non-maximized windows, in
> > fact if you only take this both bars into account.
>
> I think that's an arbitrary limitation you're putting on the toolbar size.
> In a KMail individual email window (I usually have them around ~80 chars
> wide), the toolbar with text alongside is about as wide as the text, so the
> toolbar fits nicely into a sensibly sized (wrt content) window. (The menu
> is much shorter, there's empty space left).
>
> > A bad example -- that has nothing to do with KDE! -- imo would be
> > Thunderbird with a very wide toolbar. Maybe there are such examples,
> > beside Akregator_de, in KDE. If there are we should find them.
>
> Akregator needs to be fixed, I thought that one is pretty obvious.
>
> > @Aaron your blog post on KMail made me try it again after a long break.
> > :)
>
> One example where a default setting of text alongside works very well
> (especially, since with all the listview,

Text along side the icon seams to me to be the sandard, the places were it is 
difrent is places were the icons are actualy big like filebrowsers. and in 
those places you alrady know you willl have to scroll and probaly want big 
icons so you can have nice previews (also its already a collum/rows view  so 
the placement of the text makes litle difrence as you area alrady reding 
colums) .
As far as i can tell prety much every were else the standard is icon text 
alongside specialy wen the icon is small as they are in the toolbars.
 



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